How to format your references using the Aquatic Living Resources citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Aquatic Living Resources. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Download the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

Rosenfeld D., 2006, Atmosphere. Aerosols, clouds, and climate. Science 312, 1323–1324.

A journal article with 2 authors

Walker C.L., Stewart E.A., 2005, Uterine fibroids: the elephant in the room. Science 308, 1589–1592.

A journal article with 3 authors

Neutel A.-M., Heesterbeek J.A.P., De Ruiter P.C., 2002, Stability in real food webs: weak links in long loops. Science 296, 1120–1123.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Yin H., Pruyne D., Huffaker T.C., Bretscher A., 2000, Myosin V orientates the mitotic spindle in yeast. Nature 406, 1013–1015.

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

Szylar C., 2013, Risk Management under UCITS III/IV. Hoboken, NJ USA, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Jhala R., Schmidt D. (Eds.), 2011, Verification, Model Checking, and Abstract Interpretation: 12th International Conference, VMCAI 2011, Austin, TX, USA, January 23-25, 2011. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Aliev I., 2009, Siegel’s Lemma and Sum-Distinct Sets. In: Pollack R., Pach J., Goodman J.E. (Eds.), Twentieth Anniversary Volume: Discrete & Computational Geometry. New York, NY, Springer, pp. 1–8.

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for Aquatic Living Resources.

Blog post

Andrew E., 2015, Promising Prognosis As Cancer Deaths Continue To Fall [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/promising-prognosis-cancer-deaths-continue-fall/ (accessed 10.30.18).

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

Government Accountability Office, 1992, Space Station: NASA’s Software Development Approach Increases Safety and Cost Risks ( No. IMTEC-92-39). Washington, DC, U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Sutton D.L., 2010, Preparing instrumental teachers: A resource for volunteer, lay music teachers in Salvation Army churches (Doctoral dissertation). Long Beach, CA, California State University, Long Beach.

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

(nyt) S.K., 2003, World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Writer-Politician To Be Freed. New York Times A10.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Rosenfeld 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Rosenfeld 2006; Walker and Stewart 2005).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Walker and Stewart 2005)
Three or more authors: (Yin et al. 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	Aquatic Living Resources
Abbreviation	Aquat. Living Resour.
ISSN (print)	0990-7440
ISSN (online)	1765-2952
Scope	Aquatic Science